Saturday, September 6, 2014

Judy Ancel: Never mind the border — President Obama should visit Honduras

By Judy Ancel, Kansas City Star
Auguest 5, 2014

After a meeting with Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently, President Barack Obama said that politics, not philosophy, divided him from Republicans on how to respond to the mounting numbers of children fleeing Central America and Mexico.

Both men want more border patrol and quicker processing for expulsion. Obama calls the situation a humanitarian crisis, but his solution is to “humanely” deport the kids back to the disaster areas from whence they came.

Neither Republicans nor Obama ask why the kids come. Instead, Obama smugly blames their parents saying, “I’ve asked parents across Central America not to put their children in harm’s way in this fashion. [...]

Read the full article:
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/as-i-see-it/article1071977.html

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